Pieku = Haiku + Pie:

A poem about pie written in three lines in 5-7-5-syllable format.

The 17 syllables should preferably include a "kigo" (or reference to a season.)

Here's an example... 

The mighty rhubarb                (First line has 5 syllables)
Tasty encrusted in gold         (Second line has 7 syllables)
Sweet slice of summer           (Third line has 5 syllables)

Create a Pieku (one or many) and submit them for posting on this site and on the Pieku Board at the Festival. You may sign your work or remain anonymous.

When you eat the pie
Warm memories bye and bye
Fill the heart and thigh

--Ken M.

If you take the pi
Out of opinion, you get
Onion Pi! De-lish!!!!!!!!!!

---The Pie-rate

Fall's empty pie plate
Pumpkin growing on a vine
Pick, slice, spice and bake

--Sharon

Crusty Flaky Pie
Blueberry or Cherry make me sigh
Oh, how I love pie.

--Terri Langford

Cinnamon sugar
Crust scraps rolled into pinwheels
Dreaming of Nana

--Andrea

It's three point one four
But really it's so much more
I'm eating pie SCORE!

--Anonymous

I really like pie
It tastes so delectable
Yum in my tummy

--Bellatrix

What is the circum-
frence of a tasty pastry?
IT IS TWO PI! MATH!

--The Pie-rate

 

Flaky crust falls from
Your mouth. Hurry! Catch it quick!
Seven second rule!!

--The Pie Fairy

 

So warm and so cold
Comforting guilty pleasure
My pie a la mode

--Katie Simon

Swimming mincemeat mile
Fall-cool water, hot oven
Time soon to eat pie

--Alexia Smith

Lattice crust on top
Plum juice drips over the edge
My fork awaits, yum!

--Aunt Jill

Memaw's bright kitchen
With pumkin and apple pies
Always full of love.

--Melissa Hennis

 

Filling full of love
Crust kneaded to perfection
Yearning for a taste!

--April D.

 

Crumble but no crust
Hot and crunchy and so sweet
Cousin to the pie

--Anonymous

 

Apples and Crumble
A hot slice of yummy pie
waiting to be et.

--The Dali Piema

 

A Perfect Circle
That We Would Love to Divide
Nothing Equals Pie

--  Dr. Cy Ince
   aka  Krusty the Pie-Clown
   aka David 'deep dish' Ayers

 

Apple-- that's my style
Mincemeat pie that's not worthwhile
But rolling crust sucks

--Shortfellow Karlet Campbell

 

Memaw's pumpkin pie
Always the best of the bunch
She added in love 

--Karla Sprouse

 

Pies for the asking
Bet I can eat more than you!
Or so I've been told.

--NAP

 

Pie in the sky is
wild but pie in the pool is
filled with good people.

--B.Lachman

 

Homemade pie, sublime
The hungry beast is sated
Who needs dinner now?

--NAP

Are you gonna write
a pieku my wife wonders.
Not without pie first.

--Chris Haskett

O Gracious Cobbler
With Autumn's Crust and Crumble
Fear Not the Ice Cream

--Longfellow Flakybottom

 

Pie is best in fall
When both pumpkins and apples
Come ripe to table

--ELM

 

Apples in buckets
Crisply awaiting pie-ness
On the kitchen floor

--Phil Hyre

 

Autumn pie of mine
Crisp sweet apples piled way high
Drizzled cream, big slice!

--Aunt Jill

Accept your sad fate
Apples, pumpkins, pears, pecans
It is time for pie

--ELM

 

Late Summer's Bounty
Plucked for Deep Dish Delight
Glistening Black Berry

--Leslie Ayers

 

Love the bottom crust
But why is there no top crust?
Ugh half naked pie.

--Samantha Copping

 

The easiest way
to make teenage son smile wide
Banana Cream Pie!

--Grayson's Mom

 

Fruit pies are yucky
All seasons for chocolate
Chocolate pies YUM!

-- Debbie Desjardins

Golden apples now
Ripen on leafy green boughs
Ready for a pie

--ELM

 

Yom Kippur and pie
Mature fruit in golden crust
A year of good life

--Phil Hyre

Crust Crust Crust Crust Crust
Filling Filling So Filling
Crust Crust Crust Crust Crust

--Mollie Messimer